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Saturday, November 22, 2025

The Glass Knife Park Avenue

Recently I attended the preview for new location of The Glass Knife on Park Avenue in Winter Park. We were greeted with a glass of sparkling wine.

During the event, servers walked around with the chicken salad croissant and pimento croissant sandwiches. I also got to try the whipped feta spread on a house made focaccia with roasted tomatoes and an olive oil drizzle. All of those were very tasty.

The Glass Knife is known for their sweet treats. The sweets table had gourmet chocolate macaroons and tiramisu. They offer the tiramisu seasonally.

The Park Avenue location will be focusing more on savory foods. They served Royal Ossera Caviar on blinis with crème fraiche which is always a favorite of mine. Another favorite of mine is cheese and charcuterie board which was provided by Simply Cheese. Simply Cheese on Aloma along with Winter Park Honey are female owned business that will be supplying The Glass Knife.

The Glass Knife is the exclusive provider in Florida of Onyx Coffee Labs out of Arkansas. Besides the traditional coffee beverages, they have delicious specialty drinks such as a S’more Cortado which is a 4oz cortado with toasted marshmallow syrup, a hint of chocolate, and topped with crushed graham cracker. The drink is paired with a freshly torched mini s’more.

The have variety of wine-based cocktails using Klir wine-based vodka. Some of their offering include an espresso and passionfruit martinis. The passionfruit martini was a popular choice at the preview.

The wine list is reasonably priced. They offer several of the Wagner family portfolio such as Sea Sun, Caymus, Conundrum, and Mer Solei. Other notable wines on list include Miraval Rose, Far Niente Chardonnay, Mumm Brut Rose and Veuve Clicquot. Wine is available both by the glass or bottle.

Both locations of The Glass Knife are open until 10pm weekdays and 11pm weekends.

212 N Park Ave

Winter Park, FL 32789

Sun–Thurs 7:30am-10pm

Fri & Sat 7:30am-11pm

https://theglassknife.com/

https://www.instagram.com/theglassknifewp

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Doshi Winter Park

Doshi Winter Park is a modern Korean restaurant in Winter Park. They are located in front of the Whole Foods on 17-92 next to Mooyah.

When they first open in mid-2022 they offered a fixed price menu called the chef's counter.

They have recently added the option for a la carte menu items. They still offer the chef's counter option as well.

The a la carte menu offers options such as appetizers, skewers, main courses.

The food is very creative and unique, but still based in traditional Korean cuisine.

The table was set with only chopsticks no fork, so if you're up to the challenge make sure your chopstick skills are up to par, though I imagine they will give you fork if you need it. I decided to try my skills, though the peanuts and also the carrots were a little bit challenging to pick up.

Banchan

My meal started with banchan, which is typical for a Korean restaurant. If you're not familiar, it's a selection of appetizers in small bowls selected by the restaurant. Often it's the case that if you like one particular dish you can ask for more of it. I mentioned to the server that I really enjoyed one of the appetizers and I was asking about the preparation, and she brought me more.

The three items were:

• Kimchi

• Soy marinated peanuts - these were really tasty, similar recipe here

• Pickled onions, cucumber, jalapeno. This had a sweet tangy flavor that I loved.

Appetizer

Next I tried the Cheesy Tteokbokkis which is sweet & spicy rice cakes, truffle mozzarella, pepitas. This was a bit spicy and very tasty. I don't believe that cheese is a traditional item in Korean cuisine, so this is likely where the modern, creative aspect of this restaurant comes in. I really loved this dish. Read more about the history & tradition of this dish in Korea here

Skewers

I then moved on to the Kkochi aka Skewers.

I selected two:

• King Oyster Mushrooms - salt & pine nut. The pine nuts were particularly challenging to pick up with the chopsticks. This was served with a green sauce which was not described on the menu so I'm not sure what it is. But possibly something like a pesto.

• Fire Octopus - gochujang & sesame. This was pretty good it had the texture that you expect from octopus and was not too spicy

There was another skewer I was eyeing before I arrived, on the online menu, which was eggplant, but they were out of it.

Main Course

For my main course it was a toss-up between selecting the shrimp fire noodles and the galbi dish.

I selected the Wagyu Galbi Jjimb - beer-braised short ribs & vegetables including carrots.

This was extremely delicious and the beef was so tender. I would highly recommend this dish. It was served with white rice. I was given a spoon for the broth on this one.

In total my meal cost about $75 with no added drinks.

Overall, the atmosphere was pleasant, music was modern, service was excellent, pleasant and attentive.

https://www.doshiorlando.com/

More details about the Chef's Counter:

Reservation for parties of 1 to 8

A 12- course tasting menu inspired by the royal cuisine from the court of the Joseon Dynasty.

They may be able to accommodate dietary restrictions. Email them ahead of time info@doshiorlando.com

Prepaid reservation for parties of 1 to 6

$160 per person. Corkage fee $35.

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Doshi

https://instagram.com/doshiorlando